Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation
The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and cu...
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ftoslomet:oai:ojs2.journals.hioa.no:article/2760 2023-05-15T16:50:53+02:00 Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín Hansen, Börkur 2018-11-07 application/pdf text/html https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760 eng eng Oslo Metropolitan University & University of South-Eastern Norway https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760/2969 https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760/2970 https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760 Opphavsrett 2018 Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir, M.Ed., Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, PhD., Börkur Hansen, PhD. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE); Vol. 2 No. 2-3 (2018): Special Issue: Leading and organizing the education for citizenship of the world; 56-71 Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE); Vol 2 Nr. 2-3 (2018): Special Issue: Leading and organizing the education for citizenship of the world; 56-71 2535-4051 municipalities leadership role educational leadership educational governance national legislation policy in education info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftoslomet 2022-08-29T06:12:34Z The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and curriculum guides—and identify themes by looking for specific words that are characteristic in leadership practices. The findings reveal that policy ends concerning educational leadership of municipalities are somewhat tacit in current national legislation. Yet, the roles and responsibilities that the state delegates to municipalities comprise leadership functions that are distributed in nature and, to a large extent, harmonize with desired leadership practices as emphasized in the literature. Legislation emphasizes comprehensive education, but also in-cludes signs of technocratic homogenization. In the discussion of our findings, we argue that the educational system is quite dependent on the political emphasis at each given time, making it difficult for both munic-ipalities and the state to facilitate a cohesive leadership emphasis. We suggest that closer attention to the local level, and a recognition of it as an important unit and agency for educational development, is of sig-nificant importance. These observations will be followed by a further investigation into the actual practice of leadership at the local level. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland OsloMet Open Access journals |
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The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and curriculum guides—and identify themes by looking for specific words that are characteristic in leadership practices. The findings reveal that policy ends concerning educational leadership of municipalities are somewhat tacit in current national legislation. Yet, the roles and responsibilities that the state delegates to municipalities comprise leadership functions that are distributed in nature and, to a large extent, harmonize with desired leadership practices as emphasized in the literature. Legislation emphasizes comprehensive education, but also in-cludes signs of technocratic homogenization. In the discussion of our findings, we argue that the educational system is quite dependent on the political emphasis at each given time, making it difficult for both munic-ipalities and the state to facilitate a cohesive leadership emphasis. We suggest that closer attention to the local level, and a recognition of it as an important unit and agency for educational development, is of sig-nificant importance. These observations will be followed by a further investigation into the actual practice of leadership at the local level. |
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Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín Hansen, Börkur |
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Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín Hansen, Börkur |
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Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Margrét |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level: Defined Roles and Responsibilities in Legislation |
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educational leadership at municipality level: defined roles and responsibilities in legislation |
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Oslo Metropolitan University & University of South-Eastern Norway |
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Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE); Vol. 2 No. 2-3 (2018): Special Issue: Leading and organizing the education for citizenship of the world; 56-71 Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE); Vol 2 Nr. 2-3 (2018): Special Issue: Leading and organizing the education for citizenship of the world; 56-71 2535-4051 |
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https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760/2969 https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760/2970 https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760 |
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Opphavsrett 2018 Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir, M.Ed., Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, PhD., Börkur Hansen, PhD. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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